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Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1960 Last awarded 2022 Highlights Total awarded 51 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Anuradha Roy Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
Jayanta Mahapatra (22 October 1928 – 27 August 2023) was an Indian poet. [1] He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He was the author of poems such as "Indian Summer" and "Hunger", which are regarded as classics in modern Indian English literature.
Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners cover winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award, a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the twenty-four major Indian languages. [1] The lists are organized by language.
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.
Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature." [3] [4] Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first writer elected to the Fellowship; Mulk Raj Anand was the first Indian English writer to be inducted in 1989 and R. K. Narayan in 1994, the ...
Manoj Das (27 February 1934 – 27 April 2021) was an Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. [1] In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded the Saraswati Samman.He was awarded Padma Shri in 2001, [2] the fourth-highest Civilian Award in India, and Padma Bhusan in 2020, [3] the third-highest Civilian Award in India for his contribution to the field of Literature & Education.
Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. [1] Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of the Indian government.